Real Moms' Water-Breaking Stories

Updated: January 29, 2015

Despite nine months of preparing, there's one event you can't really ready yourself for: the moment your water breaks. Click though the slides below to get a laugh from these real-life stories from WTE members.

Real Moms' Water-Breaking Stories

Stocksy

Due date circled on the calendar? Check! Hospital bag packed? Check! Birth plan finalized? Check! Now, all you need is for your water to break exactly when and where you want it to. Unfortunately, Mother Nature has her own plan for her fellow moms. So chances are your water will break when you least expect it (if it breaks at all!). But if you’re like these WTE members, your water-breaking story will be a watershed moment worth sharing. Read on to find out the wet and wild (and hilarious) ways these real mamas welcomed their wee ones.

Up in Arms

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"I went into the hospital around 9 p.m. and finally got my epidural after midnight. When my doctor came in to see me the next morning, I told him I thought I needed to push. He said he would check. He was still wearing his dress shirt, so he just rolled up his sleeve to the elbow and put a glove on. He got a bad surprise when my water broke all over his arm and soaked his shirt! (Sorry, Doc!) The nurses helped me start pushing while he went to clean up and change."

—buninthebaker

Baptism Baby

Alamy

"With my firstborn, my water broke when I was at a baptism. I was so embarrassed that I got on my hands and knees to clean it up. While my mother called my husband at work, the priest asked me what I was doing, and I just cried. He then told me to go to the hospital."

—Irishbrit17

Parking-Lot Predicament

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"My water actually broke in a Walmart parking lot on the day I graduated with my master's degree. It wasn't the slight trickle that I'd been prepped for. Instead, it was — as my husband described it — 'like an eight-ounce glass of water poured out on the ground.' But when we arrived at the hospital, the doctor didn't believe I was going into labor. They discharged us, and I leaked all through the night. Since I was 39 weeks exactly, we returned to the hospital the next day to start induction. Our beautiful daughter, Lillian, was born 22 hours later."

—Sarah

Tow-No!

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"I had just had my car towed to the dealership because the battery died. While I was waiting for it to get fixed, my water broke. The customer service representative at the dealership had to drive me to the hospital! Six hours and 15 minutes later, my son was born — after waiting for my husband to come in from out of town."

—Jill

Soaked Sofa

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"I'm still on my first pregnancy, but my friend's story is the best. She was sitting watching TV with her husband the night before her C-section was scheduled when her water suddenly broke. Her husband asked, 'Did you just pee on the couch?' and she got upset with him. It took 10 minutes of going back and forth about how she didn't pee on the couch before they dealt with the fact her water had broken! Luckily, her doctor let her have a VBAC that day."

—stazya

Drive-Thru Drama

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“One weekend, we were visiting my family’s cottage. We were in the drive-thru at McDonald’s getting breakfast, and I bent over to reach something on the car floor. My water broke right there! We quickly headed back to the cottage, told everyone, and went to the hospital. Twenty-four hours later, the love of my life arrived via emergency C-section.”

— Jennifer

Mid-Sleep Surprise

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"I was sleeping. I thought I had peed on myself. (At that point in my pregnancy, it would not have surprised me.) I went to the bathroom and cleaned myself up — only to wake up wet again 20 minutes later. Audrey was born a bit early, so I wasn't expecting my water to break for a while, but I knew I hadn't peed on myself twice."

—Hatsoff21

Midnight Madness

Stocksy

"It was midnight on my due date. I was home, on my way to bed, and I felt a pop as I was lying down. At first, I thought it was gas, so I ignored it. A minute or two later, I decided to get up to use the bathroom, and my water broke all over the place, leaving a small stream between my bedroom and the bathroom. I couldn't get it to stop. Even my cats walked in it. My daughter, Hanna, was born 19 hours later."